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I REE-BERT. WIG MAKER'S APPLIANCE.

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Patented Oct-26, 1897.

Nrrnn STATES ATE-NT HUGO E. EBERT, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO AUGUST F. STAHL, OF SAME PLACE.

WlG-IVIAKERS APPLIANCE;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,243, dated October 26, 1897.

Application filed April 5, 1897. Serial No. 680,740. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: beyond the same. Each pin-shank has play Be it known that I, HUGO E. EBERT, a citiin a corresponding head-block slot, and the zen of the United States, and a resident of contourof the latter is such that the pin it- Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and self maybe swung out to stand at a prede- State of Wisconsin, have invented certain termined angle to the head-block, the elevanewand useful ImprovementsinWVig-Makers tion and angle of each pin being such as may Appliances; and I do herebydeclare that the be found most convenient or desirable. following is a full, clear, and exact descrip- When not in use, the pins Gmaybe swung tion thereof. up in the head-block F out of the way, the

10 My invention has for its object to do away. construction and arrangement of said pins with the bodilyconstraint and fatigue usually with respect to the head-block recesses and experienced by wig-makers in holding blocks slots'being such that no pivots are necessary. upon which their work is done. Therefore A pin G being swung out to stand at an ansaid invention consists in asimple economical gle to the head-block F, it constitutes a supr 5 stand, upon which to support a wig-block at port forawig-block H, as shown in the drawvarious angles convenient toa Wig-maker, as ing, this wig-block being provided with a hereinafter more fully set forth with refersocketforengagement of saidpin. Inasmuch ence to the accompanying drawing, and subas wig-blocks are turned on a lathe, their sequently claimed, the head of the stand bechuck-sockets serve for the engagement of 20 ing preferably adjustable to various elevathe pins in connection with the head-block F tions. herein set forth. The head-block F is also The drawing represents an elevation of a shown provided with a series of oblique sockwig-block stand constructed according to my ets c'for the'engagement of pins I, that also invention, parts of the same appearing in secconstitute supports for holding wig-blocks in 25 tion. various positions with respect to said head- Referring by letter to the drawing, A rep block, the angle of each of said sockets being resents a base, of any suitable material, prefsuch as may be found convenient or desirerably cast-iron. The general design and conable.

struction of this base are, however, immate- Having thus described my invention, What 30 rial. The base herein shown has a socket- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letstandard B rising therefrom, and engaging ters Patent, is

this standard is a shank O of a horizontal 1. A head-block in connection withasuitplate D, the plate-shank being held in vertiable support, and wig-block supports in the cally-adjusted position by means of a setform of pins that normally engage vertical 35 screw E, engaging said standard. recesses in the head-block and have their Rigidly secured to the plate D by screws lower ends reduced to form shouldered flat or other'suitable means is a head-block F, shanks of irregular contour, substantially as herein shown as having an elliptical crown, Y shown, engaged with head-iblockslots interalthough the general design of the head-block secting said recesses'but extended in beyond 40 maybe indefinitely varied, and the means for the same, the contour of each slot being also supporting the same, vertically adjustable or substantially as shown, whereby the correotherwise, is also susceptible of indefinite vasponding pin may be swung outto stand at a riation. predetermined angle tosaidhead-block.

The head-block F is shown provided at in- 2. A head-block in connection with a suit- 45 tervals with vertical recesses for the engageable support, wig-block supportsv in theform ment of pins G, each of the latter being re- -of pins that normally engage vertical recesses duced at its lower end to form shoulders and in'the head-block and have their lower ends aflat shank Z), of irregular contour, this shank reduced to form flat shanks of irregular conbeingengaged withaslot formed in said headtour, substantially as shown, engaged with 50 block to intersect a pin-recess and extend in head-block slots intersecting said recesses but .100

extended in beyond the same, the contour of have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in each slot being also substantially as shown, the county of Milwaukee and State of Vis- 10 whereby the corresponding pin maybe swung cousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

out to stand at a predetermined angle to said w 1 1 head-block, and another wig-block support in HUGO ELERFJ the form of a pin having engagement with Witnesses: an oblique socket in the aforesaid head'bloek. N. E. OLIIHANT,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 13. C. ROLOFF. 

